Colorized Poof! In Setting

Here's a colorized version of the little Poof! animation in a setting I would like to use it in.  Thoughts??

Poof! Animation

Here's a cute little Poof! animation I made using a Flash FX tutorial :D

'Nightmares' and FPS

12:56pm

Using Unity's 'Nightmare' project tutorial for my warm up. I'll adjust the player to FP later ^_^ Great intro to the new GUI :D #7DFPS

3:29pm

This "Edit Collider" toggle button in 4.6 is pure magic.

4:15pm

#7DFPS ideas are starting to bubble

7:01pm

Whew! Still going on warm up day for #7DFPS Getting a bit antsy in  my chair but I really do enjoy the project. Especially if you are a beginner to Unity this is a great "next step" after the Roll-A-Ball tutorial

8:10pm

Done!! Great starter project and some wonderful ideas generated!!

#7DFPS Warm Up!

Hey everyone! I'm pretty excited to announce I will be participating in the 7 Day First Person Shooter game jam!  I'm starting the #7DFPS 7 hour warm-up today and pretty excited to be trying something new ^_^
I'm going to stay in Unity and probably go off some Project assets they have as it will be my first time trying the FPS genre.  This will be an awesome learning opportunity!! :D #7DFPS warm up starts now!!

The most special thing - my heart in Imagine Me

This shot is really special to me. On last nights Twitch stream (every Thurs at 8pm CDT), one of our long standing community members made a level design suggestion and we implemented it immediately. Live development means we can try crazy things or some not so crazy things suggested by the community. If they don’t work, we just move on, BUT if its something kinda cool, something we hadn't thought of, or something a different perspective brings to light - we can instantly see the game improve. You + Imagine Me = a better game. That is really special to me <3

Hauntings

I had a nightmare the night before last. I was at the house of my grade school years. I had gone into the garage to get something and the garage door was open. It was night and the outside was dark. I looked out into the night and had an instant feeling of fear. I quickly pushed the garage door button. I heard the familiar sound of the mechanism starting and in a slow motion sequence, as I turned to go back into the house a man with a deranged look on his face appeared from the darkness and grabbed me. I think I woke up screaming.

It's still haunting me today and has, in fact, become a source of inspiration for my current work on Imagine Me. weird.

My Color

I have thought about inclusive-ity and diversity a TON lately.  I didn't like that my only option was to scream "Hey [under represented group] I want you to be a member of our community!"  There had to be something else I could do.  What was I missing?!?

Today I had an epiphany.  Today I realized for the very first time WHY I wanted the diversity.  It wasn't so I could champion about that I am inclusive.  It finally dawned on me that I WANT to tell the under represented groups they are needed and why they are needed.

We are drawn to things that are like us!! :D  I recently found out the founder of Adafruit is a girl!!  I was so excited!!  A girl!  Someone like me!  Doing something techy!  How cool!!  Google's "Made with Code" is about girls (like me!!) using code (I can do that!!).  I read an article in the Star Tribune featuring the La Semana Culture Camp for adopted kids from Latin America.  The highlighted quote was 'All the kids are my color.'  Meggan Scavio recently recalled a conversation she had with Rami Ismail on how he felt seeing Farsi on a slide at GDC and how moved he was.  It was because there was something he resonated with, something "my color."

That is it.  THAT is what its all about!!  Finding "my color" is why I want to scream from the rooftops:

"Please be a member of the Imagine Me community!!! Be the "my color" for someone.  Please bring your friends.  Find your "my color" with us.  Let me know how I can make that happen for you!  I want it to be a place you feel safe.  A place you can find your color :)"

You may not understand why it's such a big deal to me - especially right now.  That's okay ^_^ I just wanted to tell you, I've found "my color."